whats is NTSC FIlm

[air360]

I i have always used the refular NTSC format....and i am wondering...what is NTSC Film?

[N0SoopForU]

NTSC Film is just NTSC @ 23.97 fps. Film(movies, most cartoons, etc) runs at 24fps, so NTSC film is there for people who want to encode at the original film's frame rate (usually after the vide is inverse telecined). You can get a 20% boost in quality by encoding at 23.97 fps instead of 29.97 fps. But since the NTSC standard calls for a frame rate of 29.97 fps, you might run into compatibility problems on some TV's. NTSC film is better suited for MPEG-2 encoding because you can tell the encoder to encode at 23.97 fps and enable 3:2 pulldown on playback which instructs the DVD player to automatically convert the signal from 23.97 to 29.97 to comply with the NTSC standard.

[air360]

so what you are saying is that if i encode at 23 on SVCD i and use 3:2 pulldown i can get better quality and still be compatable on most DVD players?

[IGuaNAdoN]

you will find that a lot of dvd and divx will already be 23.976... just read up on pulldown.exe and NTSC Film.

Good Luck!


IgGy

[adam]

Yes if you encode in ntscfilm than you can maintain compatibility on most dvd players and still get a considerable boost in your video quality but actually the boost is more like %30, not %20.

Almost all svcd compatible dvd players can play svcds encoded in ntscfilm as long as you use the pulldown flags. I'm sure there are players which can't handle svcds like this but I don't know of any.

Vcds don't use pulldown flags and all vcd compatible players are supposed to auto telecine ntscfilm encoded vcds. Unfortunately not all players support this function but I believe most do. You'll just have to test out your player and see.